Talk:Subcouncils of the City of Cape Town

Article is up to date
Can the notice regarding out of date information please be removed. Also, if anyone would like to neaten up the table by centring the numbers column that would be much appreciated.

Thanks. 41.208.10.82 (talk) 12:48, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Subcouncils of the City of Cape Town
I am the Subcouncils writer for the City of Cape Town. I'll be updating the information on this website and the others linked to it. Editors and moderators are welcome to help me neaten up the site but please don't delete the edits themselves.

If you would like to verify the information, go to http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/subcouncils/Pages/Home.aspx

Thanks 41.208.10.82 (talk) 07:31, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

Subcouncils naming convention
The old subcouncils which consisted of 23 divisions were given names in addition to their numeric designation, e.g.: Subcouncil 18 (Rondevlei). The current convention has dropped the use of the names and only references subcouncils by number, from Subcouncil 1 to 24. As this new system is still relatively new, many sources still reference the old names, where applicable, for the sake of clarity. Officially, however, only the numbering convention is to be used. 41.208.10.82 (talk) 12:40, 12 February 2013 (UTC)


 * But the new (2011) subcouncil areas don't actually correspond to the old (2006) subcouncil areas, do they? So, to my mind, it doesn't really make sense to attach the names to the numbers as describing the new 24 subcouncils. - htonl (talk) 12:58, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Yes, that's correct. The number of wards has increased to 111 and in some cases the geographical divisions have obviously been redrawn. A number of wards have also been allocated to different subcouncils. I am in the process of removing these naming references but they do still tend to crop up. Please feel free to assist with this pruning task. 41.208.10.82 (talk) 14:08, 12 February 2013 (UTC)